Intention

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research in the International Journal of Education Economics and Development has used the entrepreneurial intention model to investigate what if any influence of parental self-employed status has on the aspirations of their offspring. The researchers obtained data and questionnaire results from 319 respondents at a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain International sporting events like the football world cup or the aquatics championships rely heavily on media coverage to capture the action and share it with the world. But what about the experience of the journalists who bring these stories to life? A study in the International Journal of Sport Management and…

The UK's third and fourth operators by market share have today announced their intention to merge. We're talking about Vodafone and Three. The combined company would leapfrog past both EE (the current No.1) and O2 (the No.2), creating the country's biggest operator while at the same time lowering competition, since where there were four, there will be only three. As part of the proposed deal, Vodafone would own 51% of the combined business and CK Hutchinson Group Telecom Holdings (the owner of the Three brand) would…

Vegetable oil, blueberries, butter: - Whether or not we choose something at the supermarket also depends on how environmentally friendly we think the packaging is. Credit: Janine Macht/Uni Bonn German consumers consider paper-based packaging to be particularly environmentally friendly. Nevertheless, they tend to be skeptical about innovative products such as paper-based bottles. This is shown by a recent study by the…

Did Maali Almeida – the protagonist of your novel – start off as a closeted gay man in your imagination, or did you add this detail while developing the character?Well, the initial inspiration for the character of Maali Almeida came from the real-life story of a Sri Lankan man called Richard de Zoysa. He was a newsreader, actor, poet and activist. When he was abducted and killed in 1990, that incident really shook up the Colombo bubble. Several activists and journalists from Sri Lanka had been murdered before that but…

Dating app Tinder rolled out a new profile feature called "Relationship Goals," which will help members signal what they are looking for.The new feature has started to roll out globally to members in several countries and will be available to all members by January 5, 2023, said the company."Young singles, who make up the majority on Tinder, are increasingly becoming more intentional with who they spend their time with. In fact, 72 percent of Tinder members said they're looking for someone who knows what they want," Kyle…

Kenya has no intention of shutting down Facebook, which is owned by Meta, its ICT minister said on Monday after the national cohesion watchdog gave the platform seven days to comply with rules on hate speech or face suspension.The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) on Friday accused Facebook of contravening Kenya's constitution and laws for failing to tackle hate speech and incitement on the platform ahead of August 9 national elections."We do not have a plan to shut down any of these platforms," Joe…

Bette Midler has said “there was no intention” of being “transphobic” in her widely criticised tweet.The Hocus Pocus star was recently condemned by fans for a tweet many people said “demonises trans people”.Midler wrote on Twitter: “Women of the world! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even our name!“They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators,’ and even ‘people with vaginas’! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you.”Many people,…

With one month to go until its release, Beyoncé has shared the mission statement and cover art for her new album, Renaissance.The art, as can be seen below alongside Bey’s message to fans, features the multi-hyphenate atop a crystal horse. In her statement about the record, she revealed her intention with Renaissance was “to create a safe place, a place without judgment.”Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a…

Niantic has confirmed that it has “no intention” of removing remote raids for standard tiers of Pokémon Go raiding, however certain Community Day raids will still require turning up in-person to complete. Speaking to Eurogamer, Pokémon Go game director Michael Steranka shared that Niantic has “no intention right now of removing remote raiding for the regular tiers of raiding – one, three and five-star raids,” but noted “we haven’t been shy about the fact we’re looking at opportunities for players to get playing…